Nutanix is now shipped without AHV

Hi guys, today I was in the process to add three brand new nodes to an existing cluster with VMWare, but I was unable to discover the nodes through Prism or cli. Not even checking with my foundation VM, connecting the nodes to the switch I use for every cluster installations I did in the past worked.
After investigating the network and judging it is fine, it turned out that any node was able to boot properly, cause no boot device was found. Trying to force the boot of the satadom has been unsuccessful. I didn't investigate further to have the job done in time, proceeding to image the nodes through the foundation VM and have them prepared for the expansion. Whatever it looks like no AHV was installed on the nodes. Maybe I do not remember well, but my past experiences suggest me it had to be there. Is my memory faulty?

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Same thing happend to us. This happend because of a new way of working. Previously Nutanix would foundation the bare metal nodes with a version of AOS. Now the partners should foundation the nodes, if they don’t you get a blank slate.
We ended up foundationing the nodes ourselfs through a foundation VM connected to the same network as the blank Nutanix nodes. Worked out allright in the end.

I've probably answered my own question (need to purchase and install SATADOM option for PERC 730 or replace them with HBA330s but just seeking confirmation so that I can validate the purchase requirement to my customer...

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